2024 Election

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The end of this article is a good indication of why this vote is so close: the shameless ignorance with respect to policy positions of the candidates. The undecided voter in question lists better food safety regulations, banning forever chemicals, and the economy as her most important issues. This woman will decide at the last minute, and her vote will count more than literally tens of millions of other votes, and somehow she is this oblivious. If those are your main issues and you can’t decide between the guy who will tank the economy, destroy administrative agencies, and roll back or eliminate regulations and the woman who won’t do any of those things, you are, for lack of a nicer term, a blithering idiot.

slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/election-trump-harris-gwen-walz-pennsylvania-swing-state-polls.html

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But I'll vote for him anyway. Spineless coward. Turtleman! Turtles don't have spines, right? And he lets racist comments by Demented Donnie about his wife and others pass.

McConnell called Trump ‘stupid,’ a ‘despicable human being,’ new book says

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Republican leader by the Associated Press’s deputy Washington bureau chief.

According to the AP, which reported on excerpts of “The Price of Power,” by longtime Washington reporter and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Michael Tackett, McConnell made the comments in the weeks before the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, in which a mob of Trump supporters attempted to stop the affirmation of President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election.

And McConnell endorsed Trump this past March, saying it was “abundantly clear” that the former president had earned “the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/17/trump-mcconnell-jan-6-capitol/

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Baier is just another lying MAGA scumbag POS.

Harris ought to send Bret Baier flowers for that Fox News interview

One of the people Vice President Kamala Harris might want to thank in her victory speech, if she wins the election, is Fox News anchor Bret Baier. His combative interview Wednesday gave Harris the chance to display qualities — and present facts — that Donald Trump desperately wants to keep hidden from the network’s millions of viewers.

Don’t take it from me; take it from Baier himself. He said afterward that he thought Harris came to the interview seeking “a viral moment” and added: “I think she may have gotten that.”

Practically since the day Harris became the Democratic nominee, Fox News hosts and guests have blasted her for not doing more unscripted interviews. Wednesday’s half-hour encounter was a reminder that we should all be careful what we wish for.

From start to finish, Baier was more of an inquisitor than an interviewer; there was none of the deference that fellow Fox anchor Harris Faulkner had given Trump when she moderated his town hall. Baier repeatedly interrupted the vice president, trying to talk over her and posing questions seemingly cut and pasted from the list of Republican talking points.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-fox-baier-interview/

Baier is an alum of DePauw University, the school that gave us Dan Quayle!

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Class act you have there, HoyaTalk "Republicans!"

Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms.

He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and said she had “no intelligence whatsoever.” He made fun of her husband, Doug Emhoff, for an affair he acknowledged during a previous marriage.

He questioned the manhood of Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), at the same time belittling transgender people. He tendentiously emphasized former president Barack Obama’s middle name of Hussein, as he often does at his rallies, and used profanity to disparage former New York mayor Bill de Blasio.

The only person off limits for Trump was himself.

“Tradition holds that I’m supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening,” he said. “So here it goes. … Nope. I’ve got nothing. I’ve got nothing. There’s nothing to say.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/17/trump-harris-al-smith-dinner/

The sin here is not that Kamala Harris had the good sense to reply, "No thank you, I'm previously engaged." The real scandal is that the good Catholic cardinal of the great city of New York would not have the courage to say, this year, that the current Republican candidate is a walking example of so much the Catholic Church finds repugnant in today's politics that he would suspend the normal invitations.

The real controversy is that an event that touts its history of raising funds for society's most needy is going to host someone who is one of the culture's greatest threats to that kind of caring. The real outrage is that Trump, given the public nature and extent of his repulsive record, should be invited to a fundraiser for an organization, Catholic Charities, that has long worked in the trenches to save and transform lives on society's farthest margins. It is tragic that the guest of honor this year will be someone whose personal example and policy wishes are in a collision course with the principles of Catholic social teaching.

We are triply disappointed, Cardinal Dolan, that in the name of the church and its witness to the wider culture, you did not suspend the norm this year and invite someone worthy of the event's cause. We are disappointed you didn't have the courage to stand up to Trump, a looming threat to the democratic ideals that allow the church to host such a high-profile public gathering.

www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-cardinal-dolans-al-smith-dinner-disappointment-misdirected

(Cue comments describing the NCR as a liberal rag).

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Senile old man exhausted! Assisted living in a federal prison seems like a good alternative for Demented Donnie. Under the Eighth Amendment the BOP is constitutionally required to provide appropriate medical care.

NO SHADE — Recently, it’s become something of a pattern: Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then … things fall apart.

It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s “Squawk Box” — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a “60 Minutes” episode earlier this month.

Why does this keep happening? Playbook has learned that yet another outlet was given an explanation by Trump’s team for why their own interview wasn’t coming to fruition: exhaustion.

The Trump campaign had been in conversations for weeks with The Shade Room about a sit-down interview. The site, which draws an audience that is largely young and Black, hosted an interview with Harris just last week.

But as no interview materialized, Shade Room staff began feeling that feet were being dragged inside Trump’s campaign. No date was ever set, we’re told, but the intention was to try and work toward a sit-down.

In a conversation earlier this week, when describing why an interview hadn’t come together just yet, a Trump adviser told The Shade Room producers that Trump was “exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change” at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations.

www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/10/18/trumps-media-backout-00184324

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Corrupt grifter. No doubt if the issue were ever to reach SCOTUS, it'd find no violation of the emoluments clause as judicial grifters Alito and Thomas have similarly enjoyed the fruits of their own corruption.

Trump hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds

During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rates on multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency more than it did other patrons — including a Chinese business and members of a foreign royal family, according to a new report released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The authors of the report, which is based on Trump International Hotel room records from September 2017 and August 2018, argue that Trump violated the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses, which were designed to prevent the president and other federal officials from enriching themselves at taxpayer expense.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/18/trump-hotel-secret-service-overcharging/

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Oct 18, 2024 11:38:41 GMT -5 DanMcQ said:

Waiting for certain posters to chime in here to complain about “vote buying”.

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No way! You mean the promises of “carnage” are all reruns? I mean nobody would fall for that right?

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